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is a platform for parametric design in graphic design. It documents the work of students and teachers at the Department of Design at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW), who are investigating the significance of the system as a conceptual model and design method under the title “Parametric Design in Graphic Design.”

Design is less about intuitive, even ingenious “strokes of genius” and more about a holistic and rule-based (systemic and systematic) process of gaining knowledge and shaping form. It is becoming increasingly important to be able to design dynamic systems that both guide and inspire the design process.

Parametric design refers to this design in and of systems—with rules, their modes of operation, and systematic manipulability. The research project, led by Prof. Heike Grebin, is an integral part of teaching and aims to raise awareness of design as a performative process.

Play the System brings together selected study projects in which the system plays an important role as a design method – whether analog or digital. The works are created in a fruitful symbiosis of theory, design, and technology. Socially relevant issues and positions from philosophy, art, and avant-garde design from around 1900 to the present day are repeatedly discussed.

Play the System is an invitation to become aware of the systemic competence of graphic design and to gain the maturity to use the tools of digital design critically.

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p161 Hall of Fame of Neoliberals

The work Hall of fame of neoliberals deals with the history of the emergence of the economic idea of neoliberalism. The website aims to shed light on both the actors who stood behind this idea and continue to do so today, as well as the relationships between them. It is important to emphasize that there is no single form of neoliberalism, but that over time, different currents with different characteristics have emerged. This work should initially be understood as a model—an attempt to visually compile the events surrounding the history of neoliberalism. Today, the term neoliberalism, which is also a political battle cry, is generally viewed negatively. At least that is what former German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said when asked if he was neoliberal: “The word neoliberal has completely strayed from its original meaning and has become a distorted term of contention.” 1 So if even the leader of an economically liberal party does not describe himself as neoliberal, it is worth taking a closer look: where does the term actually come from – and who is really neoliberal? The idea of neoliberalism originated in 1938 at a meeting of 26 men in Paris at the invitation of Professor Louis Rougier. This meeting went down in history as the Walter Lippmann Colloquium. The aim was to develop an economic order that would protect against both nationalist and communist dictatorships. The state was to create a set of rules within which the market could operate freely. Due to World War II, it took until 1947 before the neoliberals, led by Friedrich August von Hayek, met again in Switzerland. There, they founded the Mont Pelerin Society. This elite society continued to spread neoliberal ideas until they achieved their breakthrough against Keynesianism in the 1980s under Reagan and Thatcher.